The arrival of the Dementors in Little Whinging seemed to have breached the great, invisible wall that divided the relentlessly non-magical world of Privet Drive and the world beyond.
No sooner had Mr Mason joined the group of guests than a servant entered to announce the arrival of an old gipsy woman, who was supposed to be a skilled fortune-teller.
And in the 1960s and early 70s France’s economy grew rapidly and a labor shortage led to another wave of immigrants - with even more arrivals from French colonies throughout Africa and the Caribbean.